Docker Contracts in the East Midlands

Docker
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Docker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Docker over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 55 67
Rank change year-on-year +19 +12 +1
Contract jobs citing Docker 20 12 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.47% 1.56% 1.29%
As % of the System Software category 36.36% 13.04% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 10
10th Percentile £326 £356 £300
25th Percentile £360 £356 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £424 £480
Median % change year-on-year +3.72% -11.72% -4.00%
75th Percentile £525 £513 £653
90th Percentile £537 £560 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

All System Software Skills
East Midlands

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 55 92 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.53% 11.95% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 68 130
10th Percentile £196 £145 £122
25th Percentile £258 £201 £212
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £338 £375
Median % change year-on-year +30.22% -10.00% +36.36%
75th Percentile £537 £475 £573
90th Percentile £550 £576 £691
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 17
10th Percentile - - £12.12
25th Percentile - £45.22 £15.25
Median hourly rate £15.09 £48.56 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year -68.93% +83.38% +52.40%
75th Percentile - £51.91 £40.25
90th Percentile - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £28.71 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +36.69% -58.00% +163.16%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Docker as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Docker in the East Midlands

Docker
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Docker in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Docker in the East Midlands

Docker
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Docker in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Docker in the East Midlands

Docker
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire +4 14 £440 +22.34% 12
Derbyshire - 5 £500 - 6
Leicestershire +6 1 - - 5
Docker
England

Docker
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Application Server
2 2 (10.00%) Apache
2 2 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (10.00%) JBoss
3 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) AWS
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 5 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 5 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) Serverless
3 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) GCP
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (15.00%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (5.00%) Anthos
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Batch
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) HTTP
1 3 (15.00%) HTTPS
1 3 (15.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (15.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (15.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (10.00%) Apache Hudi
3 2 (10.00%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (10.00%) Big Data
3 2 (10.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (10.00%) Delta Lake
3 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (10.00%) Flink
3 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (10.00%) Parquet
4 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (40.00%) Git
3 5 (25.00%) SonarQube
4 3 (15.00%) Chocolatey
5 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (10.00%) CA Release Automation
5 2 (10.00%) JIRA
5 2 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (10.00%) TeamCity
6 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Architect
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Java Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Java Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Scala Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) IT Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) Kafka
2 6 (30.00%) RESTful
2 6 (30.00%) Spring
3 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (15.00%) .NET
4 3 (15.00%) ActiveMQ
4 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (15.00%) CSS
4 3 (15.00%) HTML
4 3 (15.00%) JPA
4 3 (15.00%) Lambda Expressions
4 3 (15.00%) RAML
4 3 (15.00%) React
4 3 (15.00%) REST
4 3 (15.00%) Spring Batch
4 3 (15.00%) Web Services
5 2 (10.00%) Apache Avro
5 2 (10.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (10.00%) LDAP
5 2 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.00%) Public Cloud
1 3 (15.00%) State Machine
2 2 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 12 (60.00%) Microservices
3 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (45.00%) DevOps
5 8 (40.00%) Agile
6 5 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (25.00%) Event-Driven
7 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 4 (20.00%) ETL
7 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (20.00%) ITIL
7 4 (20.00%) Service Delivery
8 3 (15.00%) API Development
8 3 (15.00%) Budget Control
8 3 (15.00%) Contingency Planning
8 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (15.00%) Kalman Filter
8 3 (15.00%) Project Planning
8 3 (15.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Java
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 6 (30.00%) Python
4 5 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (20.00%) Scala
6 3 (15.00%) C#
6 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
7 2 (10.00%) Bash
7 2 (10.00%) Perl
8 1 (5.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
1 2 (10.00%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (85.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (30.00%) Terraform
3 3 (15.00%) Ansible
4 2 (10.00%) Kibana
4 2 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (10.00%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (5.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
1 3 (15.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (10.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks
2 2 (10.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) IBM
2 2 (10.00%) Ping Identity
2 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (10.00%) Splunk
3 1 (5.00%) VMware